CIBA Vision, a global leader in the research, development and manufacturing of contact lenses and lens care products, is sourcing and evaluating for a Management Information Dashboard system. The Dashboard system shall allow its management and key managers in Asia Pacific to have instant and direct access to its Sales,

Inventory and Receivables information. This information will be extracted from its ERP system, ASW and download to the Dashboard system.
After evaluating a few solutions, Ciba Vision selected KEYfields’ iDAC solution. The iDAC is a web-based DASHBOARD system that allows Sales, Inventory Balances and Receivable ageing information to be viewed and analyzed. It allows the management to have a bird’s eye view of the requested key performance indicators. The Graphlets can be viewed instantly using a web browser or automatically generated at scheduled timing to be email out to designated personnel at regular intervals.”The evaluation criteria of a Dashboard system has to be ease of use and information display in graphical representations for analysis purpose. This allows easy comparisons of Sales results in terms of Markets, Business Franchise, and Customers and at the same time have a view of inventory balances as well as Receivables ageing. KEYfields iDAC not only fitted our requirements but more importantly the consultants have in depth understanding and knowledge of ASW system. This knowledge will ensure that the iDAC will be successfully implemented at the agreed deadline.”, said Lee Lye Seng, CIO for Ciba Vision Asia Pacific.”After studying Ciba Vision’s Dashboard requirements, the key challenges are the ASW versions which is not the same in which of the Asia Pacific country, the codes used for the same Product Group are not standardized and the business processes are not uniformed. In order not to modify or change any existing ASW database, contents and programs, information that are not standardized will be handled in KEYfields’ iDAC(Dashboard Analysis and Control) via mapping tables. We would like to thank Ciba Vision for choosing KEYfields as their preferred partner for the iDAC project.”, said Kenny Tan, General Manager of KEYfields.